How do People Come to Believe in Conspiracy Theories | Nature, Formation, & Personality

This video answers the question: How do individuals come to believe in conspiracy theories? I review the nature, formation, and possible personality characteristics associated with conspiracy theories. Contesting epistemic authority: Conspiracy theories on the boundaries of science. Harambam J Public Understanding of Science 24(4):466 SAGE Publications Ltd 20150501 0963-6625 Swami, V., Coles, R., Stieger, S., Pietschnig, J., Furnham, A., Rehim, S., & Voracek, M. (2011). Conspiracist ideation in Britain and Austria: evidence of a monological belief system and associations between individual psychological differences and real-world and fictitious conspiracy theories. British Journal Of Psychology (London, England: 1953), 102(3), 443–463. BLANUŠA, N. (2011). Depathologized Conspiracy Theories and Cynical Reason: Discursive Positions and Phantasmatic Structures. Politicka Misao: Croatian Political Science Review, 48(1), 94–107. Nothing Happens by Accident, or Does It? A Low Prior for Randomness Does Not Explain Belief in Conspiracy Theories. Dieguez S Psychological Science 26(11):1762 SAGE Publications, Inc 20151101 0956-7976